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The Nikon F of 1959 is the camera that made the 35mm reflex the professional standard, and it introduced the F bayonet Nikon still uses today. Production ran to 1973 and 862,600 bodies, serial numbers 6400001 to 7451052, with a titanium-foil focal plane shutter, interchangeable prisms and focusing screens, and a motor drive option running to four frames a second. Black bodies were the working professional's choice and surface far less often than chrome ones.